Nicola on the value of diverse abilities

What would you want to say to a large audience about how to be more welcoming to people with disabilities?

"Coming from a person who has a disability, that the community accepts them and doesn’t look down on them. Treat them as an equal not as inferior"

How should we see people with disabilities in our communities? 

"Just as equals who hold different abilities than we do. They have their own abilities and are just regular people." 

This Citizen Speak is brought to you by one of our community allies from the University of Alberta. Over the course of fall 2013, a University of Alberta Community Service-Learning student (Alexandra Brooker), set out to explore and document what people in Edmonton think being an engaged citizen means and how we can get better at it.